The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/20 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/20 at 07:00 EDT

Do you ever finish a true crime series and wish that you could know more? It happens to me all the time. And that's what's driving my interviews on Crime Story. Each week I'm lucky enough to sit down with the best storytellers and really dig into what it takes to tell those stories. And this month our riches run deep. We have Keith Morrison, Amanda Knox, and Bone Valley's Gilbert King. I'm Kathleen Goltar. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. King Charles paid a visit this morning to Canada House. A royal

visit comes as Canada's High Commission to the United Kingdom marks its 100th anniversary. Crystal Gmancing has more. Well, a warm welcome for King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Canada House, greeted by High Commissioner to the UK Ralph Goodale, as well as some other dignitaries. A red carpet covers the steps of the building in central London, which was first open in June 100 years ago. The Royals are here to celebrate that long history. This visit to Canada House sets up the King's trip to Canada later this month when King Charles will deliver the speech from the throne.

Richard Hardman is the King's biographer and he says it's unusual for a monarch to be invited to open Canadian Parliament. It's definitely a pretty emphatic statement of the importance of Canadian sovereignty to Canada and to its head of state. Now today Parks Canada has taken the extraordinary step of declaring the establishment of Canada House a national historic event. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. Canada Post is once again on the verge of being shut down.

The union representing 55,000 postal workers says the membership is ready to walk off the job again on Friday and what would be a resumption of their job action that started back in November. Georgie Smythe reports. We didn't take that decision lightly to go out onto the picket line. Kate Holowariak is the president at Canadian Union of Postal Workers Victoria. She says her members want to lock in a collective agreement with Canada Post and end the months of back and forth talks. Canada Post walked away from the table again last week.

I think that's about the third time. The two parties had been working under a collective agreement that was extended after job action before Christmas last year. It expires on Friday. John Hamilton is a spokesperson for Canada Post. He says a report released last week shows the service needs an overhaul. We need to be making a number of changes, starting with negotiating agreements that reflect the realities of 2025.

Both sides say they still hope to return to the bargaining table, but if no agreement is reached, operations including mail and parcel delivery could shut down by the end of the week. Georgie Smythe, CBC News, Vancouver. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a weekend joint statement issued by Canada, Britain and France is, quote, a huge prize for Hamas. The statement warns that the three countries will take joint action if Israel continues

with its military offensive in Gaza, and it criticizes Netanyahu for blocking aid into the Palestinian territory. Netanyahu says world leaders need to follow US President Donald Trump's example in supporting Israel. Meanwhile, there's been multiple explosions overnight across southern Gaza. The airstrikes come as the Israeli military says it has struck more than 650 Hamas targets over the past week. Israel says it's an ongoing operation aimed at eliminating Hamas' military capabilities. Local medical workers say more than 500 people have been killed over the past eight days.

In the middle of all this, ceasefire talks are still underway in Doha. However, the prime minister of Qatar says the talks are going nowhere due, quote, to fundamental differences. Manitoba government says in spite of the rain and cooler temperatures over the Victoria Day-long weekend, the province's wildfire service is saying the risks remain high on a number of existing blazes. It says the service continues to respond to 13 active wildfires. On a more positive note, it says a blaze six kilometres from Lactobani is being held and some evacuated communities are being reopened.

But a fire on the Ontario border near Ingolf remains out of control and an evacuation order remains in effect. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.